There is a substantial and major difference between causal and dispositional systems
Lumping them together under a single name of Systems Thinking just creates confusion
The popular use of systems thinking now in effect means using methods and tools that developed from Cybernetics and Systems Dynamics
So we need distinctions to know when to use one set of techniques and when to use the other
If a system has no causality, you can’t set outcome targets a priori, but you can define a vector target (direction and speed of change from the present against intensity of effort)
You can’t manage to a desired future state but have to manage the evolutionary potential of the situated present
You can’t predict the future, but you can increase resilience in there the here and now which will allow you to manage that uncertainty